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Sadly what happened at your place of work is NOT the issue, here.
Unite has NOT yet called a strike - the ballot was only the opportunity for the workers to agree to strike IF one is called - which it hasn't yet been!!

Here is the first sentence from the link YOU posted:-

"All trade union members have the right to be properly balloted before their trade union asks them to take part in industrial action"

I understand what badgery is saying. And he makes complete sense. Just because the union has voted and the members have said they are willing to strike. It does not meen the union will call a strike. Its a way of showing the company their members feel strongly about the issue and are willing to go on strike if a agreament cant be reached.

I do wish you wouldn't make assumptions about what people have said. I said that Unite had announced that tanker drivers have voted in favour of strike action, and they have. Your comment that "I thought that the 'strike ballot' was only a ballot to fulfil the government's legislation and give the Union it's power to negotiate not a call to actually strike." was incorrect, and I just wish you would accept that, and move on, rather than trying to wriggle out of it.

A Union doesn't need to ballot its members in order to negotiate on their behalf. It does need a mandate to call a strike however, and that was the purpose of the recent ballot. The members voted in favour of strike action, as I said, so the Union is mandated to call a strike. As yet, no date for strike action has been set, and I didn't say otherwise.

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